NEW DELHI: Campus killings, a dark phenomenon Indians till now largely associated with America, made a chilling entry into one of our top universities on Wednesday when a 23-year-old student of JNU coolly walked into a School of Languages classroom and almost decapitated his female classmate before killing himself with a mouthful of sulphas, a potent insecticide that doesn't take long to snuff the life out of people.
As the university froze in silence and dread, authorities with the aid of the police quickly secured all entry points, barring access of both people and information to outsiders. But from what TOI gleaned after talking to the few people willing and available to speak about the incident, Aakash Kumar, who was studying Korean and was in his BA final year, came armed with a loaded pistol, which misfired, a knife and an axe with the clear intention of murderingRoshni Gupta, 22, a girl from Muzaffarnager that he was rumoured to be dating.
Roshni, hit multiple times on the head and stabbed in her stomach, is in critical condition and fighting for life at the Safdarjung hospital where she was rushed by fellow students soon after the gruesome attack at about 11am. A team of doctors who first stopped her bleeding and then performed a surgery before doing a number of scans to ascertain internal injuries to the skull has kept her under close observation.
Shockingly, medical staff at AIIMS apparently turned away the bleeding girl and refused to admit her. A few students and one of the professors accompanying her alleged that the hospital was unrelenting. Rattled, professor Kamal Mitra Chenoy of JNU said, "We agitated for reform during the Nirbhaya protests but it was surprising to see AIIMS turning down the patient like this."
Aakash, though, who had slashed his neck just in case the sulphas didn't work, died an hour after he was brought to the AIIMS trauma centre at around 12.15pm. "He succumbed to the poison," a senior doctor said. "We could not revive him."
As the university froze in silence and dread, authorities with the aid of the police quickly secured all entry points, barring access of both people and information to outsiders. But from what TOI gleaned after talking to the few people willing and available to speak about the incident, Aakash Kumar, who was studying Korean and was in his BA final year, came armed with a loaded pistol, which misfired, a knife and an axe with the clear intention of murderingRoshni Gupta, 22, a girl from Muzaffarnager that he was rumoured to be dating.
Roshni, hit multiple times on the head and stabbed in her stomach, is in critical condition and fighting for life at the Safdarjung hospital where she was rushed by fellow students soon after the gruesome attack at about 11am. A team of doctors who first stopped her bleeding and then performed a surgery before doing a number of scans to ascertain internal injuries to the skull has kept her under close observation.
Shockingly, medical staff at AIIMS apparently turned away the bleeding girl and refused to admit her. A few students and one of the professors accompanying her alleged that the hospital was unrelenting. Rattled, professor Kamal Mitra Chenoy of JNU said, "We agitated for reform during the Nirbhaya protests but it was surprising to see AIIMS turning down the patient like this."
Aakash, though, who had slashed his neck just in case the sulphas didn't work, died an hour after he was brought to the AIIMS trauma centre at around 12.15pm. "He succumbed to the poison," a senior doctor said. "We could not revive him."
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